Select Publications
Nakamura, T., 210 co-authors, Takir, D. (2022) Formation and evolution of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu: Direct evidence from returned samples. Science, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn8671
Sunao Hasegawa, Francesca E. DeMeo, Michael Marsset, Josef Hanus, Chrysa Avdellidou, Marco Delbo, Schelte J. Bus, Hidekazu Hanayama, Takashi Horiuchi, D. Takir, Emmanuel Jehin, Marin Ferrais, Jooyeon Geem, Myungshin Im, Jinguk Seo, Yoonsoo P. Bach, Sunho Jin, Masateru Ishiguro, Daisuke Kuroda, Richard P. Binzel, Akiko M. Nakamura, Bin Yang, Pierre Vernazza, (in press) Spectral evolution of dark asteroid surfaces induced by space weathering over a decade. Astronomy and Astrophysics.
A. Longboard, E. Palomba, A. Galiano, F. Dirri, A. Zinzi, M. D'Amore, D. Domingue, K. Kitazato, Y. Yokota, S.E. Schroeder, T. Iwata, M. Matsuoka, T. Hiroi, D. Takir , T. Nakamura, M. Abe, M. Ohtake, S. Matsuura, S. Watanabe, M. Yoshikawa, T. Saiki, S. Tanaka, T. Okada, Y. Yamamoto, Y. Takei, K. Shirai, N. Hirata, N. Hirata, K. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuda. (in Press) Photometric behavior of the Ryugu’s NIR spectral parameters. Astronomy & Astrophysics
A.Galiano, E. Palomba, F. Dirri, A. Longobardo, K. Kitazato, T. Iwata, M. Matsuoka, T. Hiroi, D. Takir, T. Nakamura, M. Abe, M. Ohtake, S. Matsuura, S. Watanabe, M. Yoshikawa, T. Saiki S. Tanaka, T. Okada, Y. Yamamoto, Y. Takei, K. Shirai, N. Hirata, N. (2022). NIRS3 spectral analysis of the artificial Omusubi-Kororin crater on Ryugu. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal. Volume 514, Issue 4, pp. 6173-6182.
Kitazato, K., Milliken, R.E., Iwata, T., Abe, M., Ohtake, M., Matsuura, S., Takagi, Y., Nakamura, T., Hiroi, T., Matsuoka, M., Riu, L., Nakauchi, Y., Tsumura, K., Arai, A., Senshu, H., Hirata, N., Barucci, M.A., Brunetto, R., Pilorget, C., Poulet, F., Bibring, J.P., Domingue, D.L., Vilas, F., Takir, D., Palomba, E., Galiano, A., Perna, D., Osawa, T., Komatsu, M., Nakato, A., Arai, T., Takato, N., Matsunaga, T., Arakawa, M., Saiki, T. , Wada, K., Kadono, T., Imamura, H., Yano, H., Shirai, K., Hayakawa, M., Okamoto, C., Sawada, H., Ogawa, K., Iijima3, Y., Sugita, S., Honda, Morota, R., Kameda, S., Tatsumi, E., Cho23, Y., Yoshioka, K., Yokota, Y., Sakatani, N., Yamada, M., Kouyama, T., Suzuki, H., Honda, C., Namiki, N., Mizuno, N., Matsumoto, K., Noda, N., Ishihara, Y., Y amada, R., Yamamoto, K., Yoshida, F., Abe, S., Higuchi, A., Yamamoto, Y., Okada, T., Shimaki, Y., Noguchi, R., Miura, A., Hirata, N., Tachibana, S., Yabuta, H., Ishiguro, M., Ikeda, H., Takeuchi, H., Shimada, T., Mori, O., Hosoda, S., Tsukizaki, Soldini, R., Ozaki, M., Terui, F., Ogawa, N., Mimasu, Y., Ono, G., Yoshikaw, K., Hirose, C., Fujii, A., Takahashi, T., Kikuchi, S., Takei, Y, Yamaguchi, T., Nakazawa, S., Tanaka, S., Yoshikawa, M., Watanabe, S., and Tsuda, Y. Thermally altered subsurface material of asteroid (162173) Ryugu. (2021), Nature Astronomy, Nature Astronomy, Volume 5, p. 246-250.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01271-2
Praet, A., Takir, D. and the OSIRIS-REx Team (2021) Hydrogen Abundance Estimation and Distribution on (101955) Bennu. Icarus, Volume 363, article id. 114427.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114427
Domingue, D.; Kitazato, K.; Matsuoka, M.; Yokota, Y.; Tatsumi, E.; Iwata, T.; Abe, M.; Ohtake,M.; Matsuura, S.; Schröder, S.; Vilas, F.; Barucci, A.; Brunetto, R.; Takir, D.; Le Corre, L.; Moskovitz, N.(2021) Spectrophotometric Properties of 162173 Ryugu’s Surface from the NIRS3 Opposition Observations. The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 2, Issue 5, id.178, 22 pp.DOI:10.3847/PSJ/ac14bb.
Takir, D.; Matsuoka, M.; Waiters, A.; Kaluna, H.; Usui, T. (2021) Observations of Phobos and Deimos with SpeX at NASA infrared telescope facility. Icarus, Volume 371, article id. 114691.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114691
Takir, D., Kareta, Emery, J., Hanuš, J., T., Reddy, V., Howell, E., Rivkin, A., Arai, T. (2020) Near-infrared Observations of Active Asteroid (3200) Phaethon Reveal no Evidence for Hydration. Nature Communications, 11(2050), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15637-7.
Kaplan, H.,Hamilton, V., Howell, E., Anderson, S., Barrucci, A.,Brucato, J.,Burbine, T.,Clark, B., Cloutis, E., Emery, J.,Fornasier, S.,Lantz, C.,Lim, L., Merlin, F., Praet, A., Reuter, D., Sanford, S., Simon, A.,Takir, D., Lauretta, D. (2020) Visible-Near Infrared Spectral Indices for Mapping Mineralogy and Chemistry with OSIRIS-REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 55(4), pgs. 744-765, https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.1346.
Takir, D., Stockstill-Cahill, K.R., Hibbitts, C.A., Nakauchi, Y. (2019). 3-micron Reflectance Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Chondrites under Asteroid-like Conditions. Icarus, 333 (15), pgs. 243-251, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.05.012.
Kitazato, K., Milliken, R.E., Iwata, T., Abe, M., Ohtake, M., Matsuura, S., Arai, T., Nakauchi, Y., Nakamura, T., Matsuoka, M., Senshu, H., Hirata, N., Hiroi, T., Pilorget, C., Brunetto, R., Poulet, F., Riu, L.,Bibring, J.P., Takir, D., Domingue, D.L., Vilas, F., Barucci. M.A., Perna, D., Palomba, E., Galiano, A., Tsumura, K., Osawa, T., Komatsu, M., Nakato, A., Arai, A., Takato, N., Matsunaga, T., Takagi, Y., Matsumoto, K., Yamamoto, Y., Okada, T., Ogawa, N., Terui, F., Yamaguchi, T., Takei, Y., Saiki, T., Nakazawa, S., Tanaka, S., Yoshikawa, M., Watanabe, S., Tsuda, Y. (2019) The surface composition of asteroid 162173 Ryugu from Hayabusa2 near-infrared spectroscopy. Science, 364, 364 (6437), pgs. 272-275, DOI: 10.1126/science.aav7432.
Barucci, M. A., Hasselmann, P. H., Fulchignoni, M.; Honda, R., Yokota, Y., Sugita, S., Kitazato, K., Deshapriya, J. D. P., Perna, D., Tatsumi, E., Domingue, D.; Morota, T., Kameda, S., Iwata, T., Abe, M., Ohtake, M., Matsuura, S., Matsuoka, M., Hiroi, T., Nakamura, T. Kouyama, T., Suzuki, H., Yamada, M., Sakatani, N., Honda, C., Ogawa, K., Hayakawa, M., Yoshioka, K., Cho, Y., Sawada, H.; Takir, D., Vilas, F., Hirata, N., Hirata, N., Tanaka, S., Yamamoto, Y., Yoshikawa, M., Watanabe, S., Tsuda, Y. (2019). Multivariable statistical analysis of spectrophotometry and spectra of (162173) Ryugu as observed by JAXA Hayabusa2 mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal, 629, A13, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935851.
Nathues, A., Hoffmann, M. , Ripken, J., Thangjam, G., Platz, T., Schmedemann, N., Takir, D. (2019). Unique light scattering at Occator's faculae on (1) Ceres. The Astronomical Journal, 158 (2), 85, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab29ec.
Takir, D., Howards, K., Yabuta, H., McAdam, M., Hibbitts, C.A., Emery, J. (2018), Linking Water-rich Asteroids and Meteorites: Implications for Asteroid Space Missions. In Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids (Neyda Abreu, editor). Elsevier Publisher.
Wada, K., Grott, M., Michel, P., Walsh, K.J., Barucci, A.M., Biele, J., Blum, J., Ernst, C.M., Grundmann, J.T., Gundlach, B., Hagermann, A., Hamm, M., Jutzi, M.,Kim, M., Kührt, E., Le Corre, L., Libourel, G., Lichtenheldt, R., Maturilli, A., Messenger, S.R., Michikami, T., Miyamoto, H., Mottola, S., Nakamura, A.M., Müller, T., Nittler, L.R., Ogawa, K., Okada, T., Palomba, E., Sakatani, N., Schröder, S., Senshu, H., Takir, D., Zolensky, M.E., and International Regolith Science Group (IRSG) in Hayabusa2 project (2018). Asteroid Ryugu before the Hayabusa2 encounter. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 5(1), DOI: 10.1186/s40645-018-0237-y.
Kareta, T., Reddy, V., Hergenrother, C., Lauretta, D.S., Arai, T., Takir, D., Sanchez, J., Hanuš, J (2018). Rotationally Resolved Spectroscopic Characterization of Near-Earth Object (3200) Phaethon. The Astrophysical Journal. The Astronomical Journal, Volume 156, Number 6.
Bland, M.T., Becker, T.L., Edmundson, K.L., Roatsch, Th., Archinal, B.A., Takir, D., Patterson, G.W., Collins, G. C., Schenk., P. M. , Pappalardo, R. T. , . Cook, D. A. A New Enceladus Global Control Network, Image Mosaic, and Updated Pointing Kernels From Cassini's 13-Year Mission. Earth and Space Science. Volume5, Issue10, Pages 604-621.
Le Corre, L., Sanchez, J.A., Reddy, V., Takir, D., Cloutis, E.A., Thirouin, A., Becker, K.J., Li, J.Y., Sugita, S., Tatsumi, E (2018). Ground-based Characterization of Hayabusa2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: Constraining Mineralogical Composition in Preparation for S/C Operations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 475, 614-623.
Nathues, A, Platz, T, Hoffmann, M, Thangjam, G., Cloutis, E. A, Applin D. M, Le Corre, Reddy, V., Mengel, K., Protopapa, S., Takir, D., Preusker, F., Schmidt, B. E., and Russell, C.T. (2017). Oxo Crater on (1) Ceres – Geologic history and the role of water ice. The Astronomical Journal, Volume 154, Number 3.
Leith, T.B., Moskovitz, N.A., Mayne, R.G., DeMeo, F.E., Takir, D., Burt, B.J., Binzel, R.P., Pefkou, D. The Compositional Diversity of non-Vesta Basaltic Asteroids (2017). Icarus 295, pgs 61-73.
Takir, D., Reddy, V., Sanchez, J.A., Shepard, M.K., Emery, J.P (2016). Detection of Water and Hydroxyl on M-type Asteroid (16) Psyche. Volume 153, Number 1. The Astrophysical Journal.
Sanchez, J.A., Reddy, V., Shepard, M.K., Thomas, C., Cloutis, E.A., Takir, D., Conrad, A., de Pater, I. Detection of Rotational Spectral Variation on M-type asteroid (16) Psyche (2016). Volume 153, Number 1 The Astrophysical Journal.
Berlanga, G., Hibbitts, C.A., Takir, D., Dyar, M.D. (2016). Spectral Nature of CO2 Adsorption onto Meteorites. Icarus 280:366-377.
Berg, B.L., Cloutis, E.A., Beck, P., Vernazza, P., Bishop, J.L., Takir, D., Reddy, V., Applin, D., Mann, P. Reflectance spectroscopy (0.35-25 μm) of ammonium-bearing minerals and comparison to Ceres-like asteroids (2016). Icarus.Volume 265, 218-237.
Takir D., Emery J.P., and McSween H.Y. (2015). Toward an Understanding of Phyllosilicate Mineralogy in the Outer Main Belt Region. Icarus 257:185- 193.
Reddy, V., Takir, D., and other 13 co-authors (2015). The Physical Characterization of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2004 BL86: A Fragment of a Differentiated Asteroid. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 811, Issue 1.
Takir D., Reddy V., Sanchez, J.A., Le Corre, L., Hardersen, P.S., and Nathues, A (2015). Phase Angle Effects on 3 μm Absorption Band on Ceres: Implications for Dawn Mission. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 804: L13.
Takir D., Clark B.E., d’Aubigny C.D., Hergenrother C.W., Li J.Y., Lauretta D.S., and Binzel R.P. (2015). Photometric models of disk-integrated observations of the OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu. Icarus, 252, 393-399.
Li J.Y., Helfenstein P., Buratti B.J., and Takir D., Clark B.E (2015). Asteroid Photometry. In Asteroids IV (P. Michel et al., eds), pp 129-150. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Rivkin A.S., Campins H., Howell E., Emery J.P, Licandro J., Takir D., and Vilas F. (2015). Water and Hydroxyl on Asteroids. In Asteroids IV (P. Michel et al., eds), pp 65-87. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Takir D., Emery J.P., McSween H.Y., Hibbitts, C.A., Clark, R.N., Pearson, N., and Wang, A. (2013). Constraints and Nature and the degree of aqueous alteration in CM and Carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, 48, 1618-1637.
Takir D. and Emery J.P. (2012). Outer Main Belt asteroids: Identification and distribution of Four 3-μm spectral groups. Icarus, 219, 641-654